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Sedona Film Fest presents ‘The Road Dance’ encore Oct. 13-19

Festival Audience Choice Award-winner for Best Feature Film makes theatrical debut

October 5, 2023No Comments

In a small Scottish village at the dawn of World War I, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean in “The Road Dance”. When the village hosts a road dance for departing soldiers, an unspeakable incident changes Kirsty’s life forever.

In a small Scottish village at the dawn of World War I, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean in “The Road Dance”. When the village hosts a road dance for departing soldiers, an unspeakable incident changes Kirsty’s life forever.

Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the encore of “The Road Dance” showing Oct. 13-19 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher Theatres.

In a small Scottish village at the dawn of World War I, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean in “The Road Dance”. When the village hosts a road dance for departing soldiers, an unspeakable incident changes Kirsty’s life forever.

“The Road Dance” premiered to rave reviews at the recent Sedona International Film Festival where it took home the coveted Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film – Drama.

In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty (Hermione Corfield) yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo (Will Fletcher), an intelligent, curious poet.

The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration attended by every resident, but this sense of community is soon shattered by an unspeakable incident that changes Kirsty’s life forever.

Sensitively adapted from John MacKay’s 2002 novel, this sweeping tale of adversity and resilience captures the attitudes of the time while offering a moving melodrama for audiences of any time period.

“A film that rarely gets made these days: a big, sweeping melodrama.” — The Guardian

“A heartfelt, nostalgic film with traditional, almost old-fashioned, storytelling.” — The Observer

“Writer-director Richie Adams has beautifully translated MacKay’s book into a cinematic journey of young love during wartime and the reversals of fortune that lead to tragedy. Hermione Corfield delivers a powerful performance.” — Film Threat

“The Road Dance” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher Theatres Oct. 13-19. Showtimes will be Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13 and 14 at 3:30 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 15 at 4:00 p.m.; and Monday and Thursday, Oct. 16 and 19 at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.

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A Cauldron of Misconceptions: Sedona Enquirer
By Sean Dedalus

Sedona, AZ — I don’t know what happened to the Publisher of Sedona.Biz, the once moderate and reasonable journalist, Tommy Acosta. Or maybe I do. He must be pulling our leg.

In Mr. Acosta’s last Opinion piece, Cauldron of Chaos, Acosta pins together a necklace of current events and concludes we are on the verge of a “cosmic reckoning”. Acosta throws paint on the canvas with each hand slapping the slop on the imagination of the readers. He says in Georgia, a young college student jogging on campus was raped and murdered by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien. Shortly thereafter, Congress passes the Laken Riley Bill.

In Louisiana, Acosta points to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran who killed 14 people and left 35 more injured after he drove a truck into a crowd on New Years Day.

In New York City Sebastian Zapeta, another illegal alien took out a match and set afire a sleeping woman to death on a Brooklyn subway. Meanwhile, up in Manhattan, the CEO of United Healthcare was shot in the back by Luigi Mangione an Ivy League graduate. Acosta also takes us to Colorado where the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua took over an entire apartment building.

Acosta is not finished as he suggests that Los Angelas County’s California looked like nine concentric circles of torment which constituted hell on Earth, as spelled out by Dante Aligheri.

Finally, Mr. Acosta draws our attention to the skies all around the world where US Black Op drones follow alien plasma orbs, while Joe Biden wears his typical dumbfounded look and mumbles that even though he does not know what is going on, there is no evidence of any danger to public safety.

Mr. Acosta warns American society is unravelling at the seams. He stops short of predicting the showdown between Jesus and the Antichrist. His Opinion reads like the script to The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.

I am sorry to report to Mr. Acosta that there is no evil spirit spreading fear throughout America. That’s right. No evil spirit. Just greedy criminals and politicians. And very stupid politicians whose malfeasance borderlines on criminal conduct.

If we were to reflect as to events suggesting the end of the world we need only look back to World War II (1939-1945). Over 30 Nations were actually at war. Over 100 million people served in uniform. An estimated 70-85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the global population in 1940. On 6 and 9 of August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 286,818 people were killed.

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